Services at Parents’ Fingertips
In Kane County early childhood agencies and other organizations had a lot of useful information for parents, but there was no one place to get it all. The Kane County AOK Network brought 35 providers together to plan a Web site and spread the word that funding was needed to support its development. The United Way of Elgin became a champion for the Web site. They connected with United Ways of Batavia, Central Kane County and Fox Valley as well as the Cities of Elgin and Aurora, the townships of Elgin and Aurora and two hospitals and a library raising the funds needed to connect parents to hundreds of providers with one click of a mouse at www.kanecountyguide.org. Through this network of funders, this website has remained a valuable source of information through regular updates and revisions to assure accuracy of the information and user-friendly format.
This information will be usefl in getting the children who are living at Hesed House homeless shelter in Aurora screened for early intervention services. At this time we have a number of babies living at our facility with their mothers.